“This [LMMA] model benefits not only biodiversity but also local communities, by ensuring their food security and empowering them to be crafters of their own future.”President Hery Rajaonarimampianina of Madagascar

We learned that people in Velondriake, Madagascar’s first LMMA, thought that fish stocks would collapse without improved access to family planning. We also saw that we were ideally positioned to address this unmet need.

In partnership with specialised health agencies, we started supporting local women to offer community-based family planning services in their villages, integrated closely with local marine conservation initiatives.

This empowers women to get involved in fisheries management, and enables coastal communities to live more healthily and sustainably with their marine environment, building resilience to climate change.